Of interest:

César Rodríguez Garavito

Humboldt vs. Trump

In times of egos enlarged by social media, such as Trump’s, we lack the cosmic vision of Humboldt, where everything is interconnected.

Exhausted after crossing the Venezuelan plains, going down the Magdalena and literally climbing the Chimborazo volcano, Alexander von Humboldt saw it clearly: everything is connected with everything in nature. The herbs that were collected in Chimborazo were similar to those of equatorial regions in the other side of the world. This was reflected in the pioneering drawing of the planetary climate stripes, published in The Geography of Plants in 1807.